Thinkpad users, do you get any weird stares/remarks when using

>>55154178

Whenever I do, I just smash the fucker over the head with my indestructible laptop.

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>>55154178
>thinkpad
>windows
>starbucks

>>55154178

No, nobody gives a shit.
I haven't tried using it in a Starbucks yet though.

i've got an x201i
someone called it a netbook
someone asked if it can run windows
one of my normie friends liked it and asked how much i paid for it

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No, most people don't care what happens around them and those who do would most likely have an insignificant impact to your life if they ever react so it's best not to worry about it

>>55154219
Kek

>>55154178
management consultant here.

i don't get why you nerds think thinkpads are some badge of honor or only for an exclusive club of hackers. almost every run of the mill office job hands these or a dell xps as a standard issue.

i was given one when working as an intern at a supermarketer, i was given one when working as a BI consultant, and now i was given one as part of my current job.

in fact most of the programmers i know use MacBooks.

>Starbucks
Well now we know why you can't afford a new ThinkPad.

>>55154178
Stop being such an attention whore

>>55154261
It isn't a badge of honor its a common sense purchase. You can't get that kind of durability from any other line of laptop.

>>55154178
No, never. Do you fucking think that people care if you have a slightly unusual computer? Normal people are not autistic /g/men.

>>55154219
>Pumpkin Spice Latte

>>55154178
People are too self-centered to care about someone's laptop.

>>55154276
thats the point, OP is asking if people will give him "looks" as if its something special to own a thinkpad.

even the most dull ass accountants have them. look around at any starbucks or restaurant around actually business areas and not in "artsy" parts of town and every single person has a thinkpad.

>>55154178
Yea I get lusty looks and get mad puss with muh tool

>>55154178
The Apple Macbook Pro with Retina Display doesn't have this problem.

>>55154295
Hes confusing /g/ with real life and ThinkPads with Macbooks.

>>55154178
>do you get any weird stares/remarks when using it in a public place?
No, because:
>a) I live in a country where people are mostly normal
>b) I am a normal guy, that does not look like some autistic fedora (they are probably looking at you, not your thinkpad)

>>55154251
Underrated post

>whip it out in college
>instantly get remark on having a nice wallpaper
>it's because T60p has an IPS display and that really makes the background shine
>they ask why it's so fast, SSD
>they realise I can show almost twice as many lines of code (vertically) than they do on their 16:9 screens
>a few days later one of them gets a new laptop for class and gets a Lenovo Thinkpad. Coincidence?
>I didn't tell him the new Thinkpads suck compared to the IBM ones though

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>>55154261
>BI consultant,
>mfw I read that as BJ consultant
Damn, I really need to get blown by my gf. Got my too much pressure built up.

>>55154261
>in fact most of the programmers i know use MacBooks.
In my company, every programmer uses a rMBP. It's only non-programmers like a few project managers who use Windows. You can use a Linux laptop, but you have to supply one yourself

>>55154347
thinkpads are awesome. id ont have one :C


>>55154178
i get stares for using linux, i no longer have arch though.

>>55154261
this is the (dull) truth.

ITT: Delusional Applel cult members

I got praise for my good taste from random people in uni, including teachers.

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>>55154178
I get weird looks at my college when I pull out my X220T and spin the screen around.

It's like they just saw black magic

You fucking should. Using that nasty shit, for shame.

I get weird looks when I pull out my cock and start doing the helicopter in public

This company which had nothing to do with IT I interned once at was ThinkPad only, they have really good B2B support and are partnered with SAP (ERP blah) which is a huge deal when the management systems come preconfigured right out of the box

Lenovo simply offers the best business solutions and the hardware isnt too shabby either.

In the real world HP probably produces better hardware (Elitebook) but those dont have that iconic design and the ubiquity of Thinkpads

> Starbucks
> cup without lid

What tea is that forgot?

Why would someone get weird looks for using a generic laptop in public? This whole board is a meme

>>55154621
*sleeve

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What I've leaned from 4 years of browsing /g/:
It doesn't matter if you use a thinkpad running arch linux, a gaming pc or a brand new retina macbook everything you own is a meme, everything you do is a meme and you are a piece of shit for it.

>>55154623
What else is new.

>walk to grocery store
>apparently walking is a meme
>so is shopping
>and acquiring food
>and breathing

>>55154261
Because most of /g/ is fucking poor.

Despite the memeing about bleeding edge hardware in Speccy threads, a large portion of this board is composed of NEETs and general poorfags who HAVE to get the absolute most value for every dollar they spend because they can't afford to waste any money at all.

That's why Chink Shit and "free" stuff is so popular here.

>>55154178
Not because of my Thinkpad.

But iCucks sometimes give me stares when I code in public. ("hurr, that isn't Facebook on his screen")

>>55154178
No, they look like any other laptop. You're probably getting looks because you look like a sperg.

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>>55154727
>they look like any other laptop

Not really, some laptops will attract women.

>>55154295
>around actually business areas and not in "artsy" parts of town and every single person has a thinkpad.

No they don't.

Most businesses use crappy consumer laptops because they are cheap.

>>55154745
Enjoy your touch screen and un responsive keyboard

>>55154263
how's you piss doing

>>55154635
That's called insecurity and many people on 4chan clearly have it.

>>55154863
The keyboard is kinda shallow, true. It took some getting used to. I got the laptop for $700 off a friend though and I feel like it was worth it.

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>>55154745
>attractive women with a laptop

>>55154178
No.

I'm an engineer who works in LONDON. Everyone has business laptops.

>>55154178
Course not.

>>55154896
New Apple products are easily recognizable by young women as a sign of wealth.

>>55154178

>completely normal looking computer
>stares/remarks

have you ever been outside before?

>>55154178
Never. It's just a laptop.

>>55154907
young poor women*

Literally no one I know cares about the brand of whatever you use.

People consumed with the acquisition of shiny expensive things tend to be people for whom these things are a novelty. i.e. poor people.

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>>55154907
>compensating for being a manlet

I bet you just sit in the corner of starbucks with your lil gayboy laptop waiting for girls to come up to you.

>>55154947
You must not know any normies then. Poor people? Have you met a woman before?

>>55154951
I'm 6'3". Nice try though. I'm just a normie who visits this board for fun.

>>55154987
Yes. I'm married to one (I think).

define 'normies'.

If you're associating with people who get buttpained by what phone or laptop you own, you're either associating with children or retards, perhaps retarded children.

>>55155032
I think "buttpained" is a bit of an exaggeration but you can't deny that apple products are considered a fashion accessory as much as they are computers and phones. They hold a weird place that most other tech doesn't.

>>55154987
>I'm a normie
>I spend so much time on 4chan that I became a 4chan meme

>>55154178
I outsmart the normies by increasing my networth with my 22 hour battery thinkpad

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No. Also
>Windows

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>>55155153
Where I live, people largely don't care what computers others use.

>>55155153

I want to rape Misaka

>>55154178
>going to starbucks
what the fuck did you expect, the only people who go there are macfags and teenage girls

>implying i use a laptop outside

im not autistic

>>55154178
Those meanies always tell me that my t420 is a shitty and old-looking laptop

>too bad for them it's dirt cheap and good performing :^)

>>55155196
That's not a Misaka

>>55155273

Who is it?

>>55155153
How do you get those bookmarks to stack? my chrome adds a fucking arrow that expands into a panel, I hate it

>>55155302
For starters, that's not Chrome.
Then Press CRTL+SHIFT+B

>>55155310
Thats not what I meant, your bookmarks show as icons only. And what is it if not chrome

>>55155324
Just remove the name.
(It's Chromium)

>>55154907
>sub $2k device
>sign of wealth.

>>55155331
thanks for the trick hehe

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>>55155172
Duuude u live in akiba that's like anime irl

>>55155759
Duuude u watch anime, that's like, really gay

>>55155290
It's her clone
So not technically a Misaka

>>55154685
>"free" stuff
Are you trying to imply I'm a Bernietard? Get out.

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>>55154178
>using a thinkpad for social validation in a public site
that's sad anon

I don't get why Macfags think they're so special. Go to a college library and you can probably count the people that are not using Macs on one hand. Even Rajeet uses Macs these days. It's sickening seeing this mass consumerism, and is why I sold my mac. I'm not a fucking sheep.

>>55155794
ooohhhh

>>55156082
>I sold my thing because other people also had thing
Very retarded.

>>55155172
Duuude are you white or a chink?

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>>55154570
Holy shit
>whip out x220t to take notes
>guy next to me looks shocked, he asks if I broke it

>>55156139
No I sold my think because I realized I fell for the Apple marketing trap.

>>55156082
>at state university
>library full of plebs
>nearly everyone is using cheap laptops
>a few females are using macbooks

>>55156249
I guess you go to Bumfucknowhere State University then.

>>55156275
>university of washington
>bumfuck nowhere

>>55154251
Good post

Nobody cares about your thinkpad.

Pretty run of the mill standard issue laptop at most corporations.

>>55156291
>Washington
Flyover state.

t. New York

>>55156291

>Implying there is only one UW campus in the state

>>55154178
They don't hold a charge.

>>55154178
like I would leave my room

>>55154685
I'm not poor but I buy chink shit because they make neich devices that sometimes are better quality than what you can get elsewhere (like mp3 players)
Also if you want a cheap computer to fuck around with think pads are often sold as ex-office equipment where I am and still post 2010 technology

>>55154219
>windows
What else would you run on a Thinkpad?

>>55154178
I get a lot of girls coming up to me asking to fondle my balls.

Even if they're attractive I tell them to go away beacuse most of the time I'm busy drinking coffee and stuff.

>>55156291
>University of Washington

Muh nigga

>>55154261
>management consultant here.
aka failure.

>>55156336
>fly over state
>not in the midwest
U wot

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>>55154685
nothing wrong in using your brain to get a bargain

>>55154492
>>55154407
According to stackoverflows recent survery, most programmers use Windows 7 & 10 and notpadd++.

I don't think your anecdotal stories really matter, I'm afriad :(

>>55154295
This.

Where do you live that people are giving you looks for using a nondescript four year old laptop?

>>55154178
Goddamn who gives a shit! Why are people so caught up in this superficial shit?

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>>55156773
Because humans are superficial creatures

>go to starbucks
>take out thinkpad running crunchbang (rip)
>updating my packages in the terminal while drinking my overpriced coffee
>someone taps my shoulder
>"um sir, i don't exactly know what you're doing, but you can't do that here, you need to leave"
>turn around
>see 2 employees and (presumably) the manager
>"are you being serious? what did I do?"
>manager: "please vacate the premises or we're calling the police"
>at this point everyone is starting at me
>people with laptops are closing them and walking out in droves

>>55157986
What happend next anon?

>>55154178
>thinkfaggots think people actually give a fuck about what laptops they use
protip: they're giving you weird stares because you dumb fucks have flies buzzing around your greasy ass.

>>55156174
>im a retard and I show to you.

>>55156455
kek

>>55157986
>things that happened

>>55154178
Saw a grill using a Thinkpad (Yoga) at Starbucks today while buying my overpriced coffee.

>>55154685

Are you seriously bragging about wasting your money?

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>>55154391
This feeling

I got more comments 10 years ago when I had a macbook. Some people just couldn't keep their opinions to themselves.

>Sweet a macbook they're so awesome.
>Holy shit you're stupid. Can't upgrade anything, they cost three times as much, and you get ploughed by Jobs.

Was one of those two most of the time. Got old quick.

Now I own a Thinkpad W500 and hardly ever leave the house.

>>55154263
>implying that 3 pound coffee is for rich

I'm running an X200T that my dad bought from his old employer for 40 euro's and gave me as a present. The plastic casing has a crack just above the screen in the right corner (the previous owner must have driven over it or something).

I've actually gotten a couple of compliments on it by other people that have used thinkpads before, usually remarking on their good quality.

Seriously, I can receive wifi just shy of 500 meters (I tested it once). I love this thing. Sometimes someone will ask me my opinion on a MacBook or a Dell or whatever and I'll tell them that I used to have a top of the line Dell laptop and I had I wifi range of about 20 meters and that is was really heavy, so I'll recommend them a used thinkpad.

>>55154251
>Girl in my Negotiations class says my laptop looks huge
>Me: yup, it's got the best mobile graphics card around right now
>Her: it looks old
>Me: ...well, it's not. That's why it's got the latest graphics card... *trying not to sperg out*
>trail of spaghetti as I leave

>>55156400
not him but are you retarded? consultant jobs are good money for doing barely anything. what slave job do you have?

>>55154295
I had never seen a thinkpad in real life until a few years ago and that was in a office setting, and that remains the only lenovo product i have ever seen in. Most corporate environments I worked in used Dell and HP machines.

>>55156375
GNU

>>55154685
I may be a poorfag but you're not scoring any points if you think wasting money is a sign of success.

When I had my x201 people told me it was a nice laptop, one girl said that it looks old LOL.

It's funny when they try to use the trackpoint. When people ask me to let them use my laptop, they all instinctively go for the touchpad but its nothing there and I lol everytime.(x201 doesn't have a touchpad)

I also get mad pussy with my x220t, they have never seen a laptop like this before, one girl once asked me what is the red button on the side of the laptop, I told her to press it, pen comes out (lewd).

>>55154178
Yeah from all MacBook users in university, they take up at least 70% of the population

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>at university
>whip out x201 bad boy with long 10dBi USB Wifi antenna
>the women gasp for the sheer length of my antenna
>the men waddle over to see the plastic, matte machine for all that it's worth
>I boot up the laptop in a lightning fast 2 seconds
>the women faint
>men are beyond hysterical at this point as the screen gleams with decent viewing angles
>sheer terror envelops the crowd as they once notice the lack of trackpad, not to matter however, fear subsides as they hear the satisfying click of the keyboard
>the men, panting and sweating up a storm take turn at prodding the beautiful, plump nipple; watching the cursor move around the screen with both precision and accuracy
>the women faint once more
>I stand up
>the men stare
>I grasp the Thinkpad with two hands while maintaining eye contact with the seemingly endless crowd
>holding the screen I allow the Thinkpad to sway into the majestic 180° position without any signs of stress
>the entirety of the crowd is now hysterical
>I can not stop the chanting
>THINKPAD, THINKPAD, OH SO NICE, INSTALL SOME FREEWARE AND BEGIN TO RICE!
>the men rip off their clothes, throw away their computers, beat their chests
>the women snap their MacBook screens with incredible force, dancing admits the raining flakes of glossy-shit tier displays
>the room is elated with joy as the Thinkpad returns to it's comfy laptop carry bag
>the lecturers shed a tear
>the sun started clapping
>$140 well spent

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>>55159674

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>qtpie heel breaks and she falls over
>her coffee splashes across my thinkpad
>i stand up and help her up onto her feet
>she's looks at me and my laptop "oh my god i'm so sorry"
>I tell her it's okay, it's a thinkpad
>she says "luckily it's not something expensive like a mac"
>I buy her a new coffee

I even got her number too well she preferred to have mine instead so she will text me soon

>>55154251
Ganishka was awesome.

>>55154947
>>55154951
>>55155032
>>55155359

Confirmed for swalling blue pills hard core mode.

Women are attracted to people that have wealth of resources. Poor people in general will not spend $1000+ on a laptop/phone. So if you are using a mac, thats one very public sign you are not poor.

Women are a creature of comfort and convenience, the moment it stops being comfortable she's half way out the fucking door. When it is no longer convenient, she's gone.

>>55159404
She spoke to you for a different purpose

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>>55159718

Pic related.

I've only ever got benign questions or compliments, save for one of my grill friends saying they straight up didn't like the way it looked.

>>55159718
>>>/r/edpill

>>55159763
>... and then she gave me a blowjob

you can't deny the reality, not unless you want to lie to yourself. but half the stories there are just made up lol

>>55155153
Fitting.

Mikasa stripped naked in public, just like you're browsing 4chan in public.

>>55159690
she sounds kinda cute

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i recently converted a grill into a thinkpad user. she had some old macbook from like 2008 and now she has a thinkpad x220 with 9cell battery, i put a 512gb SSD into it and a 128gb msata ssd along with an IPS panel from an alienware laptop that fitted it perfectly. did i do good or do you think she is just gonna get a macbook air the moment she has the chance?

>>55159690
She's not going to text you.

>>55154178
Had a big number of compliments on my X230, girls thought it was cute and guys thought it was robust and handy to have.

Ultimately they still liked their macbooks better.

>>55159685
i keep hearing about people getting thinkpads for cheap

how the fuck do you get one, especially if you're canadian

>>55159871
if shes american, she'll get a macbook whenever she comes across money/someone who will buy it for her.
they care to much about social eyes than men do, to be seen/thought of as poor.

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>tfw no qt girl to program in emacs on a libre thinkpad with.

>>55159871
She's not going to let you fuck her.

>go to starbucks with x220t
>they call cops
>i didn't even show my arch to them

>>55159951

I respect her dude I'm not expecting that.

>>55159988
lol what a fag

>>55154391
that's hot

>>55154263
PISSSSSSSSSS

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>>55159685
>take my x230 to starbucks
>the judgemental looks of derision from apple users gives me a real satisfaction
>drink a pleb latte (not even soya milk bro)
>intentionally spill it on my keyboard
>pretend to panic and push the laptop off the table and onto the hard floor
>everyone is looking
>a hipster asks me if i'm ok
>stand up and declare loudly
>DON'T WORRY! IT'S A LENOVO THINKPAD™
>swagger out the door holding the thinkpad by the screen

>>55159988
beta orbiter

>>55154745
exactly, that laptop attracts women because it was designed to be bought by women.

i got called poor in college

>>55159988
you respect her? You clearly do not, you're treating her like a little girl thinking if you give her candy she'll be your friend.

Why? You gave her a laptop/upgraded her laptop for free, that shows that you think she's inferior to make her own choices/decisions because you know what is best for her.

Then you proclaim to have "respect" for this bitch. Google >>55160097 and maybe you'll learn a couple of things.

>>55154219
I don't get this meme.

Thinkpads are like the archetypal Wintel laptop, just because a lot of GNU types use them doesn't mean they're somehow made for the platform and should always have it installed.

>>55154178
No? Normalfags don't give a fuck about their computers, just as long as they do what they need to do.

Sometimes "coder hipster" autists in university classes will have a remark when they see the i7 sticker on my T420 though.

>>55154866
>>55160059
???

>>55160363
They think they are coffee snobs because they hate on starbucks. It's the coffee equivalent of hating on mcdonalds/walmart/coca-cola

>>55160363
He said that that iphones are built like tanks and based this on the fact that he once dropped his iphone 4s in a piss-filled toilet and it still worked.

You can ask the /csg/ for the full story

>>55160063
laughed irl

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>>55154178
No, because I go to a prestigious university for CS and literally 50% of my class uses thinkpads, the other half have macbooks

>>55160063
>holding the thinkpad by the screen
got damn

>>55160433
but seriously those 4 and 4s's takes quite a lot beating

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>tfw have T60
>tfw I literally never have a reason to take it with me
>tfw people will never see me using the best thinkpad running a customized Arch Linux

>>55159718
>Poor people in general will not spend $1000+ on a laptop/phone
>this is what poor people believe
Poor people are *EXACTLY* the kind of people who spend $1000 on a laptop/phone

I.e. Guy drives a M3, lives in a dump
Girl has Macbook+iPhone and finances it through part-time work and living at home

These people have no real means so they just shift all their money on one big ticket item to seem less poor and not unterschicht

real people of means drive a fucking honda civic, wear mall brand clothing and dont behave like a fucking gangsta rapper. usually just live innawoods and spend big $ on services rather than things that signify 'wealth' cause they are already wealthy

source: wealth management and big 4 internships, peers

>implying the vapid people around me would look up from their phones to insult my laptop.

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unfortunately i fell for the thinkpad t420 meme

I wish I had a macbook pro instead

>>55160669
this anon speaks truth.

>>55154263
hi pissphone

>>55160722
we all do anon

>current year
>not buying aesthetic tech

>>55159690
>not having a keyboard drain

>>55154178
That's an x200.

>>55160966
I don't. I'll probably still be using my X220 for the next ten years unless Lelnovo pulls their head out of their ass and unfucks the keyboard and gets rid of the drop hinges.

>>55159690
>not making her buy you a new computer
cuck

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>>55156124
unnnnnnnnnnnnnnng

>>55159404
Women don't just harass people over their laptop size Anon. She was flirting with you.

>>55154178
No. It's just a laptop. If I used a machine from 2005 I'd get weird looks, but my X220 is modern enough that no one bats an eye.

And if I did get any weird looks I wouldn't care. Anyone who would think less of me for using the cheapest machine that fulfills my requirements is not someone whose opinion matters to me.

>>55161082
Huh. So it is. I didn't notice at first.

I wish my X220 had that many indicator lights and that physical latch. I love my X220, but it has the first signs of "Macbookification."

>>55159404
>not telling her "well you know what they say about big laptops" and giving her a wink
you fucked up

>>55159404
>/g/ is this oblivious

Damn.

>>55161215
The laptop was a metaphor for his

"penis"

all along

>>55154219
What's wrong with starbux lol??

>>55159949
>girl

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>>55161003
Total retardation.

>>55160586
>T60 with arch
Muh nigga

>>55154219
might as well have added
>leaving the house
>having a social life
>not caring about what people think of you
>being a fucking normie
>not being an edgy outlier of society

>>55159718
my gf said she wouldnt reply to green bubbles if she was still on tinder.

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>>55159949
>emacs

>>55161003
Thinkpads are aesthetic. They are not shiny or silver or thin, but their utilitarian design is an aesthetic statement of its own. I think they look cool even though they are no-nonsense rather than sleek.

A Macbook is like a Lamborghini.
A Thinkpad is like a tank.
I had posters of both Lamborghinis and tanks on my wall when I was a kid.

>>55161510
Your GF is apparently a waste of oxygen and valuable land.

>>55159690
>well she preferred to have mine instead

oh anon...

>>55161510
>my gf
>if she was still on tinder
lol

>>55154178
I get a lot of compliments on it. Completely contrary to what /g/ believes, Thinkpads look pretty cool and "futuristic" to normies. They think it looks cyberpunk.

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>>55154261
Silicon Valley = Macbooks

Research Triangle = Thinkpads

But what programmers use is sort of meaningless since the most basic POS laptop is just as good for programming as a $2000 Thinkpad or Macbook.

Engineers, designers, and artists are the people who put these machines to work.

>>55161548
so is most of /g/

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>>55161809
And I would suppose around Microsoft's offices you would be expected to be carrying one of the nicer Dell laptops, or a Thinkpad. Can't imagine many would have the gall to show up with a Macbook.

>>55154391
Hahaha hey guys btw i have a gf

>>55154178
>>>55154261
>Silicon Valley = Macbooks
>
>Research Triangle = Thinkpads
>
>But what programmers use is sort of meaningless since the most basic POS laptop is just as good for programming as a $2000 Thinkpad or Macbook.
>
>Engineers, designers, and artists are the people who put these machines to work.
I'm an electrical engineer and I have no laptop preference. Youre wrong.

>>55154745
>women are weirdly attracted to homosexuals.
Yup

>>55161954
Yeah because electrical engineers don't need as much hardware as aero or mech engineers. Nerds of the aero department at my uni are all about the custom built xeons and shit

>>55161954
You're a shitty EE if you haven't run into an issue yet that causes a preference in laptops.

>>55161544

guys like lambos and tanks
girls only like lambos

scratch that
girls only like guys the have lambos

>>55162044
Explain what causes a preference in laptops for EE

>>55162055
>the
*that

>>55161468
Spending $6 on a 8oz cup of sugar """coffee""" makes you a normie.

Bitches love to go to underground cafes to feel more special and the different interiors add a level of exploration and discovery

>>55154241
Well... How much did you pay for it?

>>55154178
No. I've carried it many places and nobody gave a shit because people don't and shouldn't give a shit about what laptop a stranger is using unless it is a Macbook Pro/MS Surface.

>>55154907

>New Apple products are easily recognizable by young women as a sign of wealth

How fucking autistic are you? Or are you just an American who thinks someone with a 2009 Mercedes is rich?

Nobody knows about or gives half a shit about computers, these little ideas you have about people's impressions and thoughts have merely been fabricated and echoed on Malaysian embroidery forums.

>>55162075
Some piece of equipment may require a connection a laptop does not have.

Some simulation may require a level of precision you can't get with a consumer GPU.

If you are working in the field you may decide you like a more rugged design, or a lighter one depending on personal preferences.

>>55161954
>Electrical "Engineer"
>Can't even green text correctly
I'm not surprised.

>>55162205
You did it anon. Sitting at home for 10 years on 4chan made you smart

>>55159718
do you know anyone who REALLY can't afford a mac?
owning one is not a symbol of anything

>>55161871
Lots of people at Microsoft use Macbooks.

>>55161991
they actually are unironically attracted to homosexuals

>>55154685
This poorfag meme needs to die.
Being smart with your money doesn't mean you're poor.
Being poor isn't something that can really be helped. Shit talking poor people is like laughing at someone who gets sick a lot because they don't have your good immune system.
Most laptops nowadays are fucking trash and are actually the same as your average laptop from 5 years ago minus a good hard drive.
Wasting money doesn't make you better, it just means you're an irrational idiot.

>>55162297
>they actually are unironically attracted to homosexuals
That's what I was saying.

>>55162128
nice blog post, how about you go outside sometime. and yeah bitches see mercedes i dont care if it is a fugly 90s model they see money. why do you think people buy them? same reason murican rednecks buy f250 dualies to go to walmart and back. its to show off.

>>55162248
its like it flew right over your head anon.

everyone knows macs cost $1000+.
that is precisely why they're /fa/, they up there with coke and mcdonalds as a instantly recognizable product around the world, which adds value to the fucking laptop just by the way it looks, I don't care if its a 2007 laptop, "omg its a mac".

Everyone will automatically know you supposedly paid $1000+ on a laptop, for most people they don't need a laptop that costs $1000+ they go out and buy laptops between $300 and $600.

Who pays more for an item with "identical" functionality as cheaper alternatives? People who can and want to show that ability off.

>>55162446
>Everyone will automatically know you supposedly paid $1000+ on a laptop
a) it's not that much every few years
b) used cost less than half of that
given above associating a mac with status symbol is retarded - everyone can actually afford one - that's why apple has so much money.

>>55162555
>a) it's not that much every few years

what are you talking about? you can't buy a macbook for less than a $1000 new.

> everyone can actually afford one
nigger you're delusional if you think "everyone" can actually afford one. Most people around the world struggle to have the basics let alone think about laptops. Very few people world around can think of dropping $1000+ on a laptop or a phone.

USA is not the world, and none of the 50 states are like another. The average US wage would work just fine if you live in Alabama, it would leave you starving if you live in Manhattan or the Bay Area. This is why Apple is a status symbol, people aren't experts on computers, they can look at a Dell a Lenovo and a HP side by side they have no fucking clue what you paid for your brand new T460 but the macbook they know its "expensive"

>>55162674
>This is why Apple is a status symbol
not for me

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>>55162696

>>55159690
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>>55161554
Am I not getting it? This is not a real story right?

>>55162752
it really isn't
everyone can actually afford one
if not new then used - there are literal tonnes of them by now
besides I won't be judged by a moron who thinks a laptop is some sort of a status symbol
every apple owner I know personally (except one) is earning less than me

>>55162674
and whenever I'm walking round the city I see people with newest iPhones or Galaxies, sippin on cheap coffee and shitchatting on facebook on their apple laptops.

I wonder where do you live.
because I live in a 3rd world country.

>>55162674
I know you still wish to think that your apple shittop status symbol still matters, but it's been 3 years since it last actually mattered. and 5 years since it really meant something.

so yeah. bye bye your vanity points.

>>55154251
This. The only person who ever commented on my Thinkpad was my Physics professor who had a x230 that he would sometimes bring to class.

>>55154178
If you're some autistic anime weirdo type of person, people would make remarks obviously.

When you are a normal person using your recent X(1)- or T-Series, people won't notice it, unless they are into technolo/g/y.

>>55154178
No. I don't think anyone gives a shit what laptop I'm using. If they do I haven't noticed. That's probably because whenever I take the time to get my laptop out I'm busy and need to do real work. If I wanted to silently judge others and browse Amazon for stuff I'll buy but never use, I'll just pull my phone out of my pocket.

>>55163022
>Not putting your phone on the table to show it off.

Even back in 2012 people thought my X60T was a bootleg Kindle.

I've tried to be a bit more conscious of my public appearance since then and have distanced myself from neckbeard things like Thinkpads.

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>he willingly purchased a cumstained chink pad

>>55154178
The only laptop I've ever seen getting funny looks or whatever are these huge 17" gamer laptops that look like they were designed to reach 120 mph top speed. Actually, 17" laptops in general got super rare. Besides that, nobody gives a shit.

>>55159718

This is what poor people think like.

If you have genuine, hard earned wealth and not footballer nigger LOOOKATMA ROLEX wealth; you dress well and discretely. You buy things that are worthwhile investments - such as a good house in a good neighbourhood. This is how you avoid attracting attention from money obsessed lowlifes. So when you meet decent people in your circle of life and bring them back round for drinks and they see what you've amassed they'll know you aren't a total fuck. This kind of stuff is how you make proper 'connections' - a concept that loads of people speak of but don't truly understand

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bitches get wet when they see me packin muh chinkpad

>>55163198
You are either very young or have a completely unrealistic view of the world as it is.

>>55163232
damn that;s EPICCCCCC

>>55154178
>Starbucks

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>>55159743

no, people don't give a shit about what I do.

>>55163093
>Not putting your phone on the table to get it stolen.

>>55163236
You are either very young and/or have no middle class friends.

Read yourself some Bourdieu and you'll understand why girls laugh behind your back at your consumption patterns.

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>>55155172
Is this the second floor of MOS Burger in Akihabara?

What's wrong with being poor? Why does being supposedly not-poor suddenly obligate one to become a consumerist retard?

>>55154277
Thinkpads are hardly unusual.

>>55163511
Thinkpads are actually the most common recognizable brand of laptops, second only to MacBooks. I see them all the time.

>>55154685
Most of the electronics you buy are Chink-related in one way or the other. Even if you've got lots of money to spend doesn't necessarily mean you have to spend it only on expensive products. The fact that you make such stupid statements shows that you're fucking poorfag yourself who's trying to appear rich.

>>55154727
I got remarks in class by some cute chick complaining to the teacher that I "Was using like.. A Thinkpad?? I don't even know what that is??" it was actually pretty funny.

>>55154642
And living at all!
>inb4 kill self now!
suicide is also meme!

>>55154286
It's a milkshake fatso.

>>55154391
think it's doing it because its teeth hurt

>>55157986
Anon's wet dream!

>>55154907
Elliott Rodger in the making, right here.
>I drive a BMW, why don't women like me

>>55156455
>stackoverflow
>programmers

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>>55161871
Microsoft gives their permanent employees Surface Books.
Contract workers get older hand-me-downs, so it varies.
GF was given some 3-5 year old HP laptop.
Not a ton of Macs, but a number of people buy their own ultrabooks / notebooks and set it up with MS's VPN so they don't have to lug around whatever old brick they're given.

XPS 13 and 15 are popular choices there, though.

>>55154178
I do
>How old is that laptop?!
>You look like a hacker!
It depends whether you're attractive or not. If you're hideous then it'll probably make people even more repulsed

>>55161544
Lambos have great technology under the hood in addition to the aesthetics. Macbooks don't.

>>55161344
Lower pixel density?

This hot journalist chick at work once said that my laptop looked like it could take a nuclear blast. I use a T430 with a corny carbon fiber wrap. She was specially impressed with the hinges.

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>>55165252
I'm sure any woman, ever, was impressed with your laptop's hinges.

>>55165161
amazing post

>>55156082
>tfw all staff and library laptops at uni are Thinkpads and Ideapads
>almost no macfags in sight
To be fair, it's a STEM building.

I go to a university with a majority of upper class, extreme wealth, students. I use my X301 and T420 in the coffee shops and libraries on campus and no one has ever said a word about them. You only get weird looks because your either a. a fucking neckbeard or b. have your laptop covered in anime stickers and weeb shit or c. all of the above

>>55162823

You must be gnu here, anon. Never underestimate how deprived or socially awkward /g/ can be. By /g/ standards this story is very believable and you shouldn't even question it like that. Have some decency and respect.

>>55159718
Goyim or shill?

I only ever see poor people getting new iphones every 6 months so idk man

>>55165765
kek

>>55165771
I think he is trying to say that women are attracted to people who are nigger rich and not even smart enough to manage money and buy a product based on value rather than looks and public perception

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>>55159949
This is her when she was still in highschool

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>>55166332
this is her now,

Can you buy a coffee, black from a starbucks?

>>55166461
Yeah it's actually not bad and it's $1.29 or something. It's better than gas station coffee not that much better than mcdonalds coffee. And the people behind the counter are major happy that someone just wants regular coffee

>>55166352
>FLAC
holy fuck how tight is her pussy anon, want me some of that high quality gril pucci

T440s here; not really. I occasionally get "nice laptop" from passers by, but not very often, and not much else.

Speaking of which, I am looking for a relatively light Thinkpad with good battery life that I can take on the go. Maybe going to the park to write an essay or study, and etc. Gonna use it before I go to bed as well.

>>55166541
>gril pucci
fuck off homo

i pulled out my X1C4 in a trendy coffee shop, started coding, in C of course. a cute hipster girl sat down next to me and asked when i was available for her to perform oral sex on me. shit was so cash.

absolutely no one cares
not even if you use a pentium-1 machine

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>>55159404
Fuck dude, she was coming onto you. I don't know how socially inept you are (no offense I'm being serious here), but think about it for a minute. Why would she go out of her way to talk about your laptop?

GGWP no re m80, better luck next time.

>>55154685
>>55154261
I mainly use it because it's lightweight and easy to carry around in the city for uni. I have Ganoo Lunix on it, but I've still got the windows drive that I swap out occasionally.

>>55154178
>Use X220 with a 850 EVO and windows 7
>Everyone asks me how my "old" computer is so fast when their $600 pieces of shit can barely run chrome/firefox and a couple of tabs

>>55161350
i know this feel.

don't care tho, at least that's what i tell myself to be able to sleep.

>>55159687
I know this is supposed to tell that mac users are sheep but I'm pretty sure all the machines on the left run Overwatch and other video games pretty much identically

And instead of just buying into one brand that fucks you in the butt, you let yourself get rimmed by 5 at a time instead

>>55168955
>tfw use the same drive, 500GB variant, on my x200 and loonix, and I see the reactions of the people with 1500+ USD macbooks and gamur laptops when I tell them how much I paid for it all

priceless pham.

>>55154178
I have one of the newer shitty modern thinkpads, so no. They probably just think it's a black macbook or something

>>55154261
Thinkpads were the Macbook Pro of their time, very popular with working people and professionals till they became obsolete.

Apple took over the mainstream laptop market.

>>55160063
kek'd

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>>55159988
>I respect her I don't even think about fucking her
/g/

No because my thinkpad E550 doesnt look autistic, it has a pretty nice design

Not as far as I know, why? A Thinkpad is about as non-descript a laptop as you can get, it's literally just a black box.

>>55162113
650 YTL/$220
i5 1.6 ghz intel processor, 4gb ram, 1.5 gb intel hd graphics card
works fine for me.

>>55157986
and then everybody stood up and started clapping.

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>>55164269
how does one transcend the memes and rise to a higher state of being?
is such a thing even possible?
or are we cursed forever to live as memes ?

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kinda related to this thread.
my t420 finally died a horrible death through an electrical surge.
fried the whole motherboard.
im thinking of getting an L460.
anyone have any exprience with it?
i can get a model with the i5-6200U 8 gigs of ram the big battery and the intel wifi chipset instead of the broadcom one for 500€ instead of 800.
should i go for it? it seems great and after some research i found out that everything but the fingerprint reader should work out of the box on kernel 4.0+ and only the touchpad needs a tweak to the config.

>>55172278
you gotta go to /tpg/ monica
but they will berate you for thinking about getting an L series.

>>55172327
>but they will berate you for thinking about getting an L series.

why is that?
i know the newer thinkpads are suppsoed to be sup par to anything up to the t430 series but the L seems to be a good deal.

>>55154241
I searched x201i thinking it was some high tech gear that your friend was retarded for mistaking, turns out it does look like a early 2000s netbook and is about 250 bucks.

>>55154178
Why would I? How is a Thinkpad different from any other laptop?

>>55172348
I use a L440 as I was assigned it at work.
It is quite a good machine when docked (external display + keyboard + mouse) - I mean, the performance is really satisfying - but as a laptop, it's rather meh. The display is just awful, the colours are kinda bleak, washed away. The chiclet keyboard isn't really comfortable and the buttonless touchpad is outright revolting to use. Also, the chassis is made from some kinda hardened plastic that makes it feel really cheap.

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I use for business. Its doesnt attract attention and its fine if it gets rained on a little.

>>55169479
well, gamer laptops and any macbook has way better performance than your shitty x200

>>55160338
>Thinkpads are like the archetypal Wintel laptop

Since when? Who said that? You?

>>55161540
What's the matter, too deep for you?

>>55172415
Thinkpads are ugly, but they're built like tanks and can be dropped on hard floor or even concrete and still work perfectly.

>>55154178
I use my T520 in public all the damn time and I never get any weird stares or remarks.

>>55172655
>ugly
That's subjective. I think the X series are actually quite fancy.
Currently there's a bit of a boom for thin-as-smeared-shit ultrabooks, but apart from that, I don't think Chinkpads are much different from other brands when it comes to looks.

>>55172655
>ugly
They aren't, though.

>>/g/
>>giving a shit what people think

holy fuck why

>>55172746
They want to be a chad and are really insecure.

>>55172710
A E S T H E T I C S!

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Why the fuck would anyone care what computer you are using?

>>55159871

I'll put my solid state d in her if you know what i mean

I brought it to class once and they thought it was ancient because their dad used one once. I pointed out that mine was new.

>>55154178
I use X61 as my school laptop and some friends sometimes laugh at it for being ancient.
People in my school mostly use new Thinkpads tho.

No because it's a laptop a lot of people use. You aren't a special snowflake for owning/using a thinkpad. I don't know why you retards think you're so cool/unique for buying a cheap old laptop.

>>55159739
>>55161215
>>55161344
>>55161350
>>55168804
...well, fuck. I am kind of socially inept. And paranoid. I'm working on it though!